CPAC: Possible Presidential Candidates Choose Favorite Fictional Presidents
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Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — While House of Cards may have returned for season three on Netflix on Friday morning, the potential Republican candidates at the Conservative Public Action Conference would be loathe to call Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood character their favorite fictional president.
Instead, ABC’s Rick Klein and David Wright asked some of the possible candidates whether they had a preferred fictional commander-in-chief.
“I know he was a Democrat…I know the show was somewhat liberal,” Bobby Jindal said, “but look, I thought the writing on The West Wing was really good.” Former Sen. Rick Santorum agreed, choosing Martin Sheen’s Josiah Bartlet character as his favorite fictional president. “Not an easy choice for someone like me,” Santorum said, adding that “Kevin Spacey’s no conservative as far as I know.”
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, went a different route, choosing Harrison Ford’s butt-kicking character in Air Force One.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Donald Trump both went with a different actor — telling ABC’s David Wright that their favorite president was Ronald Reagan.
Perhaps the most obscure choice was the former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s selection of Bill Mitchell, the president played by Kevin Kline in the movie Dave.
Rep. Mia Love from Utah put it simply — “Certainly not Frank Underwood…I’m actually even embarrassed to mention that I’ve seen a couple of episodes of House of Cards, but you know, I think if I could do anything, I would resurrect Ronald Reagan.”
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